Word: caligula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...essay "The Virtuous Vizor of Richard III," Raymond Joel Dorius 6G was awarded the Winthrop Sargent Prize, while the first and second Susan Anthony Potter Prizes went to Walter Adolph Strauss 2G, and Aniel Phillippe Van Teslaar 2G in that order. Strauss wrote "Albert Camus 'Caligula: Ancient Sources and Modern Parallels," and Van Ecslaar submitted an essay entitled "Dil-they and the Theory of Literature...
...people desperately needing escape were chained to Paris but cheated of the U.S. movies they had doted on. But their war experiences bred in them more serious tastes, which accounts for such recent highbrow hits as Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre's Huis Clos, Near-Existentialist Albert Camus' Caligula (headed for Broadway), T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral...
...James Frazer's memorable journey through the world of dead religions - The Golden Bough. Meanwhile Rome, too, was born, flowered and withered into decay. One early expression of Rome's decay whom today's dictators might particularly have admired was Rome's monstrous Emperor Caligula (A.D. 12-41), whose favorite order was: "Kill him so that he knows he dies." Caligula built two incredibly magnificent pleasure galleys, in which to float imperially on charming Lake Nemi. The galleys were constructed of oak, pine and fir, covered with wool, sheathed in lead, studded with the bronze heads...
Pageantry, Paganism, Piety. The Apostle is packed with realistic resuscitations of First-Century life in the Roman Empire, elaborately drawn portraits of famed pagans (Emperor Caligula, Empress Poppaea, Philosopher-Statesman Seneca), vivid descriptions of the burning of Rome, Nero's persecutions, the mystery cults and the worship of Diana...
Quipped a parliamentary wag about Sir Thomas Inskip's appointment in 1936 as Defense Minister: "There has been no similar appointment since the Roman Emperor Caligula made his horse a Consul." Winston Churchill remarked that Sir Thomas was perfectly right in saying that the Army was being mechanized- "in the sense that its horses are being taken away from it." Said Sir Thomas: "Sometimes I do not feel very well equipped for my office." He held it three years. Just after the British troops sailed for Norway without proper weapons or supplies, Minister of Supply Leslie Burgin was photographed...